The Oxford handbook of the new cultural history of music /

As the field of Cultural History grows in prominence in the academic world, an understanding of the history of culture has become vital to scholars across disciplines. The Oxford Handbook of the New Cultural History of Music cultivates a return to the fundamental premises of cultural history in the cutting-edge work of musicologists concerned with cultural history and historians who deal with music. In this volume, noted academics from both of these disciplines illustrate the continuing endeavor of cultural history to grasp the realms of human experience, understanding, and communication as they are manifest or expressed symbolically through various layers of culture and in many forms of art. The Oxford Handbook of the New Cultural History of Music fosters and reflects a sustained dialogue about their shared goals and techniques, rejuvenating their work with new insights into the field itself. --Publisher descriprion.Includes bibliographical references and index.Elite and popular cultural exchanges. "Shooting the keys" : musical horseplay and high culture / Charles Hiroshi Garrett ; Yvette Guilbert and the revaluation of the chanson populaire and chanson ancienne during the Troisième République, 1889-1914 / Jacqueline Waeber ; Remembrance of jazz past : Sidney Bechet in France / Andy Fry -- Urban, aural, and print culture. An evening at the opera in seventeenth-century Venice / Edward Muir ; Josquin des Prez, Renaissance historiography, and the cultures of print / Kate van Orden ; From "the voice of the Maréchal" to musique concrète : Pierre Schaeffer and the case for cultural history / Jane F. Fulcher.Introduction. Defining the new cultural history of music : its origins, methodologies, and lines of inquiry / Jane F. Fulcher -- Constructions or representations of the body, gender, sexuality, and race. Gender, performativity, and allusion in medieval services for the consecration of virgins / James Borders ; Music, violence, and the stakes of listening / Richard Leppert ; Music and pain / Andreas Dorschel -- Subjectivity and the shaping of the self in society. "The road into the open" : from narrative closure to the endless performance of subjectivity in Mahler and Freud at the turn of the century / John E. Toews ; Understanding Schoenberg as Christ / Julie Brown ; The strange landscape of middles / Michael Beckerman -- Nationalism, cosmopolitanism, and transnationalism. The genre of national opera in a European comparative perspective / Philipp Ther ; Cosmopolitan, national, and regional identities in eighteenth-century European musical life / William Weber ; Mendelssohn on the road : music, travel, and the Anglo-German symbiosis / Celia Applegate.Symbols, icons, and sites of collective memory or ritual. A matter of style : state sacrificial music and cultural-political discourse in southern Song China (1127-1279) / Joseph S.C. Lam ; Ernani hats : Italian opera as a repertoire of political symbols during the Risorgimento / Carlotta Sorba ; Modalities of national identity : Sibelius builds a first symphony / James Hepokoski -- Politics, aesthetics, and transmission. Beethoven, Napoleon, and political romanticism / Leon Plantinga ; Translating Herder translating : cultural translation and the making of modernity / Philip V. Bohlman ; The eye of the needle : music as history after the age of recording / Leon Botstein -- Afterward : Whose culture? Whose history? Whose music? / Michael P. Steinberg.As the field of Cultural History grows in prominence in the academic world, an understanding of the history of culture has become vital to scholars across disciplines. The Oxford Handbook of the New Cultural History of Music cultivates a return to the fundamental premises of cultural history in the cutting-edge work of musicologists concerned with cultural history and historians who deal with music. In this volume, noted academics from both of these disciplines illustrate the continuing endeavor of cultural history to grasp the realms of human experience, understanding, and communication as they are manifest or expressed symbolically through various layers of culture and in many forms of art. The Oxford Handbook of the New Cultural History of Music fosters and reflects a sustained dialogue about their shared goals and techniques, rejuvenating their work with new insights into the field itself. --Publisher descriprion